2) scan the nav beacon if the system is populated 2) if no nav beacon use the FSS to look for a orange/bronze color circle (USS). A basic scan using a ship's Sensors can determine if the selected target is "Clean" or if there is a warrant for their destruction. When activated, either in normal space or Supercruise, the Discovery Scanner catalogues stars and marks the positions of planets and moons. Please pardon the lack of professionality. ago. ago. Scan the nav beacon or use your discovery scanner to determine which planet you need to go to. The nav beacon was seperate to the 'nav beacon' location I cruised to. There's two ways that i know of. Use the discovery scanner as soon you arrive on the designated system (that's called "honk"); 3. . Select the beacon in contacts. System Signal Sources are encounters in star systems that can be targeted as a destination and traveled to via supercruise. 8 views 6 days ago. The bottom-left panel says "Scanning" for a while, and that's it all there. Originally posted by Serath: FSS reveals nothing. Ps. The bottom-left panel says "Scanning" for a while, and that's it all there. I spent 20 min flying all around the yellow nav beacon. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. (apparently) scan the beacon at the front gate, it will be in your nav panel next time you decide to visit. If it's not, you can scan the Nav Beacon and it might show up. (It's a white target) Fly close to it, and point your ship at it, a spinning wheel will show up on your lower left panel as your ship scans it. This tutorial will cover the basics of finding & scanning a Navigation beacon, and entering & exiting a planets atmosphere. The mass of the bodies determines how close you'll need to be before the DSS starts scanning. For Nav Beacons, bring along a Kill-Warrant Scanner for Anarchy systems, or when not in an Anarchy System, simply scan and wait for wanted ships to fly in. The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. The second method is to lock onto it directly using the left panel’s contacts. Try it on a Nav Beacon and see how you go. Prior to Elite Dangerous: Beyond Chapter Four (3. This will change it from unexplored to it's name. It and all other undiscovered by you bodies in passive range of your discovery scanner will be discovered as you jump into a new for you system. The ships scanners will then scan it automatically. Navigation tab reveals nothing. If you get into the FSS and dial into the low grade signals and scan around, your target should light up orange. Once you scan these two data points, and liberate the raw materials from the doomed ship, log out to main. The mission black box will spawn at a signal source somewhere in that system. If not found, locate nav beacon and go there. I've used the discovery scanner too, but to no avail. Federation, Torval exploited. The problem is, I need to do a 'scan of the nav beacon in (my…I cannot find the mission objective anywhere. I've watched few guides on how this type of mission is supposed to go but in i'm having completely opposite experience so far. Flying around won't do it. Lock onto one and navigate to it just as you would to a station. Now that you have dropped into the NAV Beacons area, you must locate its location. To scan a wake you need to purchase a Frame Shift Wake Scanner and use that to scan the wake. you'll see the info display on your left say "scanning". Toggle security in your star map to find the systems. Scan Nav Beacon at target system to reveal mission target signal source where yoir target will be. The mission target location may have been added when you scan it at closer range. map it to a fire group, then pull the trigger. Welcome to the definitive massively multiplayer space epic. Drop from SC and then go back to SC. Note: EDR will not show profiles for the members of a wing you decided to join. how to do it video. #7. Then I went back to the mission. You need to FSS all the planets in the system. To scan a Nav beacon, the player must first find an asteroid or other celestial body near the beacon, then direct their ship’s energy scanner at it and launch a single. I scanned the beacon, it says they are inside the star. No more getting bogged down by miners!), and even fellow bounty hunters (Who will scan ships for bounties, and attack any with one. You can scan the nav beacon to possibly identity which one in particular by traveling to the beacon, targeting it, and facing your ship towards it for about 10 seconds or so, but this will. Go back to SuperCruise when the scan is complete. For those who want to get a fast start and might be feeling a bit more cautious about their skills, it's a good idea to head out to a Nav Beacon. Basic. It won't show as a POI, and you can't see it in the nav panel before then. Normally when you get to the system the passengers will tell you to scan the navigation beacon but this isn't what they actually want. It works the same as targeting a Nav Beacon. Fly around the equator of the star and you should spot the nav beacon at some point in your journey. Zindae • Zindae • 7 yr. The red numbers are credits you earn for each object found by using the nav beacon or using a discovery scanner. If you find it, lock on to it and go drop into the vicinity and your objectives will update. In-Game Description The Discovery Scanner is an integrated scanner module used to instantly identify all astronomical objects within an uncharted star system. As long as you’re within a few km it should scan all by itself. Advanced discovery scanner will map the system bodies up to a specified distance. The way I do it: Drop in on the NAV Beacon and STOP. wait a bit then it should say something like system data. Pirates will be wanted, and will also scan you along with dialogue regarding cargo, e. MaxUrsa. Go to system, scan nav beacon, go to body target, wait for mission specific signal source, low wake on it et voilà. Fly to about 1km or just under. The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub!. I've tried flying to a few bodies (there are over 20 in this system) and. Though dormant for millions of years, they remain functional. frichyv2. If not called mission target, check nav panel again when you get within a few hundred ls of the target. It's a physical satellite. Alter Satan May 27, 2021 @ 7:03am. It's a little confusing as there is the approximate location of the Nav beacon that you use to find it in Supercruise then the actual physical beacon which will be pretty close to that but not exactly in that spot. The actual nav beacon is a white. i had that happen to me a number of times, not with only planetary. To scan a nav beacon you don’t actually need to use any scanner. 5 km for. No, actually scanning a NAV beacon should reveal unexplored planets and stations. Drop near the beacon. To scan the nav beacon (compromised or otherwise - makes no difference) can I check you targeted the actual nav beacon that appears as a white square on the radar screen, and not the orange circular navigation reticule? If you actually scanned the nav beacon the mission related signal source will appear in the nav panel list. I've never waited more than 5 mins for such signal to spawn. ago. I found the bounty in supercruise, but didn't have the necessary things. Yeah, I've been rocking an Advanced Discovery Scanner for awhile, so I didn't realize this until I actually saw a mission description mention it. But if that all does not reveal anything you have two more options. Can't find black box. Yeah when they don’t show up on the nav map you either have to scan the Nav beacon or what I prefer is using the FSS scanner search by signals and find your target that way. I'm new to Elite Dangerous (well, I played a bit years ago, but I'm back now and basically fresh as can be) and I'm trying to complete two missions to retrieve encrypted data. Mission information also says I still need to scan. Yeah I understand how nav beacons work, but thanks and I have left my explorer ship a few systems away(so my active ship isn't equipped with a scanner but I wanted to know if anyone else had experianced this) while I search for engineering "mods" like the chemical distillery for the FSD upgrade. target the new destination found in your system map (F2 by default) and fly to it in super cruise. I do a lot of tourist missions thus have to scan a lot of beacons. just head to the Nav Beacon and drop out at it and target the actual Nav Beacon itself to give it a nice scanny. I got myself a mission to find the black box and I don't know how to find it. Simple. #6. Reactivating a Guardian Beacon will provide a key and the location of a Guardian Structure that contains Guardian Vessel Blueprint Segments. You can't scan the target marker from supercruise. I visited one of two required places, scanned the beacon, got a mission update to go on to the next. I didn't know what to do so I chose one of the targets/locations and traveled there. The ADS will give you a roadmap of what the system contains and the DSS to scan the individual bodies. I got myself a mission to find the black box and I don't know how to find it. Context: Dav's Hope is an abandoned mining camp on planet A5 in system Hyades Sector DR-V C2-23 - it is a source of manufactured materials in 10 drop-points around the base (plus a "periscope" data point to scan for encoded materials). The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. How to find Compromised Navigation Beacons and others top spot for bounty hunting. Target the blue icon (point at it and use the "target ahead" button, or select it in navigation panel on left) and keep your throttle at 75%. I find that most of the time the Pirate Lord in question will interdict me near the Mac beacon if I arrive in the system around the time that's stated in the mission briefing. BD+52 3410 - 2 outposts within 150ls of the main star, all facilities, corporate. Check the transactions tab in your left menu . Bounties outside of the current jurisdiction are not shown by the ship scanner so it is highly recommended that bounty hunters equip a Kill Warrant Scanner to scan for those extra bounties (bind it to a fire. Elite Dangerous. You can approach a body and target it, this will scan it and give you more info on the system map. Private Data Beacon. Get close and you'll be able to scan it. Same here. To collect the Encoded Materials, target the beacon, approach it to within 200 meters, and centre it in the ship's field of view. When you first enter the system you have to either use an advanced discovery scanner, or if you don't have one you need to go to the system's nav beacon and scan it. ago. Belach. How do I do that? I watched a video that just said that the data…To the OP, if scanning the nav beacon doesn't work or ADS doesn't reveal anything, they're usually flying around in supercruise. They can be targeted and scanned for Common and Very Common Encoded Materials . Once that scan is done, I head out back to Robigo Mines. The data link scanner is only used in very rare situation, such as retrieving audio logs from generation ships. This tutorial will cover the basics of finding & scanning a Navigation beacon, and entering & exiting a planets atmosphere. Paragon Oct 20, 2015 @ 8:54am. This is the most dangerous part of being a pirate, oddly enough. 3), Nav Beacons were an alternative means for pilots to uncover inhabited system data without needing to set aside an internal compartment for a Discovery Scanner. When you start to drop in, glue your eyes to the radar. You'll get a message about which planet it will be. Just a small correction, nav beacons will always work and give you the location. When you're close to the target body, the visitor beacon appears on your nav panel. make sure you turn off any filters you have set so you can see all the entries. I don't know how to make it clearer to anyone that read my initial post and subsequent responses. Non-Human Signal Sources spawn primarily in the vicinity of the Pleiades Nebula, Witch. If you have to scan a hub terminal then you have to get real close to the target. If it's telling you to use the data link scanner, you still need to have your target selected before you perform the scan. Then the mission uss should show in the left side panel (scrolling may be needed). Last edited by Ray Robertson ; Jul 1, 2016 @ 5:01am. once you have it targetted it scans automatically. you'll see the info display on your left say "scanning". I didn't know what to do so I chose one of the targets/locations and traveled there. #2. Try stopping at the nav beacon location first, scan the actual beacon, and see if that brings up a mission icon next to one of the bodies. Glorfindel67 • 3 yr. Once you are done, put on your audiobook/podcast and supercruise over to the nearest Threat Level 5 spot. You just lock onto that beacon as though targeting a ship or nav beacon. Engineer fast scanning onto your module and it'll come down to 2 seconds to do a wake scan. Surface scans are worth a lot more. Go to the system. • 9 yr. There are some. It looks me forever to learn how to scan Navigation Beacons on Elite Dangerous. Sequel to this vid:Dangerous Space combat game Space simulator Action game Sim game Gaming comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment. No need to honk, it's automatic. But if that all does not reveal anything you have two more options. the nav beacon. Disengage SC and youll drop into normal flight. Select this target node and shoot a recon limpet at it. Ah I've found it now. When tasked to kill a number of Pirates, Bounty Hunters, etc in a specific system scan targets in that system and any that show up as unreadable "Mission Target" in blue text next to the "Wanted" indicator will count towards the mission. Press corresponding trigger button and hold. I am trying to collect Chemical Distillery's to upgrade my FSD and the best place, per my Googleing, would be camping Nav Beacons in Anarchy systems and destroying Freight ships. after you scan the NAV beacon and then jump back into supercruise, the mission objective should show up in the NAV panel with a blue highlight. First thing is to locate the mission target. User Y plots a hyperjump, jumps out. To scan the nav beacon you need to drop out of super cruise and target the nav beacon while facing the beacon. The fss needs to be tuned to the bottom of the range. Edit 2: If you are not finding something, look over the contacts tab in the left panel. Looks like most of the systems have been shuffled since those were updated last. CryptoFly out to the designated planet and the beacon will show up in orbit like a Nav Beacon. make sure your sensors are turned on (some have been known, myself included to forget to turn on our sensors) drop into the nav beacon from your navigation panel. if target system distance is133,203 ls we can use FSD FAST DRIVE (IF WE WANT) to fast travel (like hyperspace jump but with fsd Interdictor effect) , after that distance is 33,203 ls. I didn't know what to do so I chose one of the targets/locations and traveled there. Go to a system in civil war, check for combat zones, then stack 20 massacre missions with the local controlling minor faction, you could stack like 50-200 million worth in missions, ++ the combat bonds. Elite Dangerous Scan Nav Beacon is a tool that allows users to search the galaxy and discover new exciting sights. You need to get a detailed. Then the mission uss should show in the left side panel (scrolling may be needed). Fly to the nav beacon, drop out of supercruise. The system in question didn't have any rez sites, and USS-ing is rather hit and miss, so I spent a few hours by the beacon hunting, and a little bit of time SC stalking with an interdictor. I suggest checking the elite dangerous wiki, they usually have pretty good details as to how to do each mission type. I was doing the Sirius Atmospherics mission, I found the planet and even the point on the plant where the POI is. When we arrive at the destination we get a private message from the passenger saying which body he wants to visit. 2. The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Which is obviously wrong. Drop near the beacon. Try it, install a dss and scan a NAV beacon, you still have to drop from super, that's no difference. The actual nav beacon is a white. 1 Answer. Hope this helps. You have to map scanners to a fire group and hold the buttom or lock on to a target depending on the scanner. Designate the NAV beacon (WHITE pip in sensors) as a target, your ship will automatically scan it and a "waiting" icon will appear in the TARGET area of the HUD. Scan nav beacons or do a FSS of the system should show mission markers. Business, Economics, and Finance. ago. Head to that body and orbit around it for a while. Searching is no longer a thing for missions, they. A Nav Beacon, one type of System Signal Source. Vasco Sapien. You'll get a message about which planet it will be. Private Data Beacon. Always smile! 🥰It's my first time posting on this Sub. [1] Doesn't say anything about deposits of minerals and such The area of interest is the blue circles, how are you people not getting that and further more!Hi, my friend and I decided to do some Bounty hunting mission to kill pirates. Flying around won't do it. you accepted a planetary scan job mission 2. You drop down from supercruise to the tourist spot and scan the beacon there. Select mission in nav panel > lock highlighted mission > fly to highlighted planet as arriving check nav panel again it will show crashsite highlighted in blue > land near fight off hostiles. Your target/destination should appear here with a special "mission" icon (I. Elite Dangerous > General Discussions > Topic Details. When the scan completes, enter supercruise and look in the left-panel > NAVIGATION. Lock that, so you know where to go on the planet surface. go to the contacts tab. It scans automatically. It looks me forever to learn how to scan Navigation Beacons on Elite Dangerous. Problem is, I can't find any famine systems to do this. It's worth noting that the nav beacon itself (as in, the satellite that you scan) isn't actually right where the nav beacon signal source is. Thanks for all the help!! Heck with finding pirates. (Advanced will map the compete system regardless of distance) Surface scanner will map the planet topology when you close to within a specified distance. Here's a video I did of me doing it. : r/EliteDangerous. And the extra range will allow you to receive signal sources from farther away, making it easier to find. Well, mission update after scanning nav beacon gave. it will be a white square on your radar. I've never waited more than 5 mins for such signal to spawn. What I'll probably do is sell these systems, then go find an unexplored, honk, scan nav beacon and then head right back home to sell it to see if it changes. IIRC the nav beacon doesn't give you a surface scan, just locations/orbits. For planetary outposts, you'll need to be withing 45 or 50M to scan. If you can't afford one, drop out of cruise at the nav beacon and scan it. • 2 yr. Your ship will scan it automatically, Then go back into supercruise. > Orbit around the planet a few times until you hear "MISSION OBJECTIVE DETECTED". The mission black box will spawn at a signal source somewhere in that system. To scan the nav beacon (compromised or otherwise - makes no difference) can I check you targeted the actual nav beacon that appears as a white square on the radar screen, and not the orange circular navigation reticule? If you actually scanned the nav beacon the mission related signal source will appear in the nav panel list. Much faster method even with dropping from SC to the beacon and scan, than hunting down all the singals with the FSS (especially in a high population system with tons of. Once the scan completes, you get a message saying that you're done there, and ya head off to the next destination and do the same thing. ago. These Pirates normally are in these signals and, at the same time, in Supercruise hanging over there. Drop out of supercruise and scoop up the mission target canister (s). 2. The author of this thread has indicated that this post answers the original topic. Also you can just fly around the system and eventually the target just pulls you anyway, but that can sometimes take time. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. Hi, my friend and I decided to do some Bounty hunting mission to kill pirates. Open menu Open navigation Go to Reddit Home. You need to target (select) it and then point your ship at it; there will be a message in the top right info panel with "information updated" or thereabouts. Select the beacon there and your ship will scan it while you're pointed at it and within 200m (I think). Now I've learnt, I thought I'd do a quick guide on it for other new players. Visitor beacon is similar to nav beacon. The passenger sends a mail message to you when you get to the correct system to tell you the nearest body to. The same function happens when you enter the Nav Beacon around the host star of any inhabited system in the bubble. Always smile! 🥰The mission said I could find targets by the nav beacon, in USSs, and rez sites. Disengage SC and youll drop into normal flight. Elite Dangerous. This works for pirate missions as well. it's possible that theres nothing in the system. 3. I am playing elite dangerous horizons and doing the nav beacon L 119 33 mission. We spent probably 45 minutes flying around aimlessly not knowing what to do or how to find these pirates, looked on google for several guides and all it said was Nav Beacons will help, but we don't know. It is not endorsed by nor reflects the views. I did not find a single mission target. The mission details say to search signal sources in Djiwal system. Don’t need to drop from cruise for that. Others you have to go one further and scan a hackable datapoint, then use a recon limpet to perform the hack on the secondary target (the docking point). Scanner used during exploration. Doing a black box salvage mission and not getting anywhere. just the built-in target scanner. I am pretty sure they are near suns, but I can fly around a long time without finding one. ago. J. #9. I got myself a mission to find the black box and I don't know how to find it. it will be a white square on your radar. r/EliteDangerous A chip A close button A chip A close buttonHi, my friend and I decided to do some Bounty hunting mission to kill pirates. Bind it as a fire group like the other scanners and weapons Edit: That's the DSS - for the DSS there is a key bind, on my German keyboard the default is ä but idk for you. The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub!. Elite Dangerous. Then just fly out and drop into that location and look for the wanted target with the pirate's name. I got myself a mission to find the black box and I don't know how to find it. Normally when you get to the system the passengers will tell you to scan the navigation beacon but this isn't what they actually want. In supercruise you look for them, left panel> contacts, then you need to interdict them, sometimes you find them in USS. Well, mission update after scanning nav beacon gave. This video covers everything from undocking your ship, finding a pirate, and cashing in your hard earned. Accepted a job to kill a pirate, and it told me to scan a nav beacon to find it. Easily locate pirate/assassination mission targets. I got myself a mission to find the black box and I don't know how to find it. Drop into it and scoop up the required items. I did that and it said to go to Xi Saon. some people are looking for compromised nav beacons for bounty hunting, since there are a lot of wanted ships there. #7. To scan the Nav beacon make sure you actually have the Nav beacon object selected, and not the destination waypoint (when you drop into the Nav beacon area the actual Nav beacon will appear as a white marker on radar) and just keep it in range and. I got myself a mission to find the black box and I don't know how to find it. That means, as long as I'm in an area where I've been previously, I'm probably going to be able to find those services without needing to use external. Use your ship's right hand-side panel to select a button to use the discovery scanner; 2. PMC Elite Dangerous, Compromised Navigation Beacons. -make sure you have the scanner on a firing group & is in scanning mode. I scanned the nav beacon anyway and got nothing. Can't find black box. Tourist Beacons are devices and persistent signal sources found at hundreds of locations (Tourist Spots) across the galaxy. I think this is just a bugged mission. Agony_Aunt Jan 23, 2018 @ 6:03am. Jun 27, 2019. Any nav beacon can be turned into a cnb and any cnb can be turned into a regular nav. Be aware that if you scan a system with a discovery scanner and then get blown up before you sell the data, you will lose the data and the system will become Unexplored again. When you approach the base head towards the beacon. Elite Dangerous basics How to find and scan a nav beacon in any system. This fixes this issue for me. Missions can also send players to specific USS sites to for bounty hunting, assassinations, and. You don't have a choice of weapons on the SRV - it's just the standard pop-gun. It's always very close to the marked location, just target and get close. Medium. Then scan the Nav Beacon. I've researched the web and watched a bunch of youtube tutorials, which instruct me to find a famine system and then scan the T-9's and the incoming/outgoing ships. When you drop. The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. There are two ways to accomplish this; the first is to use your HUD radar to locate it. If it's a base and a larger terminal, you'll need to be withing 100M of it to scan. If it's a nav beacon it will then give your ship the system informations/map, if it's a ship it will tell you name, combat rank, wanted/clean and minor faction. Elite Dangerous Scanning Systems: Follow the arrows Elite Dangerous Scanning Systems: Wait for all the geological data to scan properly. But that's the system star. The most efficient way to check out as many as possible as quickly as possible is by crusing at the lowest possible supercruise speed (30km/s) and check your left hand nav panel. The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. I travel to Xi Saon D 6 and upon nearing the planet, Gillekens Bastion (planet. 2 yr. Just submit and kill him. You need to scan the contact list, find the best stuff, and pick it up as quickly as possible. Blew up some skimmers, but nothing was interactable. Once you've crossed over in to the new sector, IMMEDIATELY hit the full stop option & spin your ship 180 degrees to find the anomaly. A quick how and where the system NAV BEACONSElite Dangerous - Solar system Nav beaconsWhat do they do and why should you scan each system you want to stay in. This almost feels like a scripted event when I jump into the target's system, and they always interdict me without fail. If you don't have cargo they'll fly away. So it's useful for many things. Scan the nav beacon or use your discovery scanner to determine which planet you need to go to. When you get close (around 15-20 MM) you will see in your navigation tab a new target called Search Area. Here battles rage, governments fall, and humanity’s frontier expands – and you can impact it all. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. . So, I started today and I am very confussed. Be careful not to run into it after ya drop, of course. Dec 13, 2021 #1. Private Data Beacons can be found in debris fields inside some Degraded Emissions and Encoded Emissions signal sources. Not to be confused with Nonhuman Signature. > Scan the Nav Beacon and it'll tell you where to go. Select A5 then surface map. Then just fly out and drop into that location and look for the wanted target with the pirate's name. In Unexplored systems, the planets show up on the system map as "Unexplored" and you need to "explore" them, by either running the FSS, scanning the nav beacon in the system, or flying up to within 32 Ls of the planet and letting the passive scan complete. Don't mistake the waypoint marker for the beacon as being the actual beacon. Scan the nav beacon to reveal all signal sources in the system. The nav beacon will always spawn pirates. Be careful not to run into it after ya drop, of course. Now I've learnt, I thought I'd do a quick guide on it for other new players. I cannot for the life of me figure out what this. Jump into the system, then visit the nav beacon, drop out of super cruise, target the nav beacon, and wait for the scan to complete. It involved a scan on a terminal (doable by going close to 100 meters with the ship on ground) that lead me to the correct system and ship. • 3 yr. Sometimes the nav does not show when you jump to a system. There are two ways to accomplish this; the first is to use your HUD radar to locate it. The mission said I could find targets by the nav beacon, in USSs, and rez sites. Business, Economics, and Finance. Elite Dangerous Space combat game Space simulator Action game Sim game Gaming comments sorted by. So you have to find ships that scan you and try to steal your cargo. Scanning the beacon in supercruise is not good enough. Open up your nav panel (left cockpit) and scroll through until you find the emission sites that are highlighted in blue. > Orbit around the planet a few times until you hear "MISSION OBJECTIVE DETECTED". 1. This works for pirate missions as well. I've tried to set out and scan a Nav-Beacon. Target "mission source", drop into it and kill the target. Scan that one. They typically indicate the presence of at least one ship or artifical object in normal space, with the name of the signal source denoting what kind of ships may be found. Well, mission update after scanning nav beacon gave. Here we go again. . On August 28, 3304, Ram Tah reported that three unusual energy signatures had been detected in deep space: "As. Written, Narrated, & Recorded by:. U have to target the beacon. Thank you very much commander. Repeat steps 3&4 until you're worried. You can then lock onto a Nav Beacon, fly to it, and drop in when you are within the appropriate distance. Systems in famine with distribution centers make for good scans usually.